Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — Bessemer residents can expect to see another increase on their water bill in 2023. The increase is to help cover city expenses to replace lead service lines on residential properties, as mandated by the state to protect public health. The cost isn’t able to be included in the city’s 2021 water main project because the lines are on private property. In order to fund the line replacements, the city has applied for a 20-year loan from the state Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to pay for t...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - A new feature at the Downtown City Square will help bridge the distance that electric vehicle drivers have to travel between charges in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. A technician was in Ironwood on Tuesday to install a Chargepoint electric vehicle (EV) charging station on the city square's south parking lot along West McLeod Avenue. The station has two pay charging outlets that can fully charge a vehicle in around two...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a resolution for a license agreement with the state of Michigan to place emergency management communications equipment on state towers. The Michigan Public Safety Communications Systems co-location license agreement with Gogebic County will allow county 911 to place VHF radio equipment on the state tower site in Bessemer, said Heidi DeRosso, emergency management and 911 coordinator. The tower will provide “interoperability,” a...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Vienna Helen Kaartunen, 98, of Ironwood, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, just two weeks before her 99th birthday. She had tested positive for COVID-19. She was born Dec. 8, 1921, in North York, Wisconsin, daughter of the late Victor and Hilda (Martilla) Warren. She married Eugene G. Kaartunen on Dec. 8, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York and moved with him around the country to where he was stationed while in the U.S. Army. She was a waitress in Ashland, Wisconsin and then was employed...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Marilyn D. DeCarlo, 81, of Ironwood passed away on Nov. 21, 2020, at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital in Ironwood. She was born on Jan. 16, 1939, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Charles and Louise (Haggerty) Mussatti. She attended local schools and graduated from A.D. Johnson High School in Bessemer in 1957. Marilyn was married to Albin "Beno" Corullo in 1957, and he preceded her in death in 1987. She married Thomas DeCarlo in 1986. She and Tom enjoyed many vacations...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Nov. 27 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org....
